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DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access in order to reduce draw overhead

I remember Win 8 being on the MS website @ £25 for a short while.. doubt they'll do that with Win 9.

And Linustech on his fridays WAN Show reckons that Win 9 will be a mix of Touch and desktop Modes being able to switch between the two. Not sure where he got his info from though.
 
Heh

I just installed my £25 version of windows 8 from all that time ago, just in time for new update in April as well. It is a mess, showing metro apps on the taskbar (and allowing me to close them) will go someways to fixing things. Its faster at some things though. /lateadopter
 
Some nice insight from an industry bod and first few segments are good but he seems to go off on a rant (however true) about Microsoft's lock in barrier and failures after that, which you can read practically anywhere lol.
 
fadeou32 said:
Does anyone have any insight into how heavily the developers are into Mantle, I saw a video with Oxide about starswarm. They were essentially saying this unlocks a whole new era of gaming I don't know if they were genuine or being paid for promotion of Mantle, I remember thinking the guy was quite into it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGUQ9rRmRLc

Does anyone know if Dice are still excited? They are the ones who originated Mantle in the first place as far as I can tell...
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Still very much so, a Dev posted this yesterday.
https://twitter.com/repi/status/443166125501976576
 
shankly1985 said:
Still very much so, a Dev posted this yesterday.
https://twitter.com/repi/status/443166125501976576
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Looking forward to getting my nerd on and catching up with what goes on at GDC in a few days.

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fadeou32 said:
Does anyone have any insight into how heavily the developers are into Mantle, I saw a video with Oxide about starswarm. They were essentially saying this unlocks a whole new era of gaming I don't know if they were genuine or being paid for promotion of Mantle, I remember thinking the guy was quite into it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGUQ9rRmRLc

Does anyone know if Dice are still excited? They are the ones who originated Mantle in the first place as far as I can tell...
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Will be interesting to see if they do actually release a game that only supports Mantle so that it can really use it. If the game supports DirectX then it's not really doing anything that couldn't have been done anyway.
Interesting to see what the sales are like too, given that Nvidia, Intel and old-AMD can't currently play such a game.
 
LtMatt said:
Just for Martini id like to see Football Manager on Mantle. :D
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Ha, FM14's current public release is somewhat broken in some later saves (Many peoples saves crash when they're trying to save, it crashes at certain dates, I'm in like 2022 :p)

On a serious note, RTW2, Mantle could change that game.
 
Anything concrete come out of this yet? Just got in and don't really fancy reading through 9 pages. Is this the 'Mantle killer' everyone claims it to be or just usual marketing ********.
 
MrMarvelous said:
Anything concrete come out of this yet? Just got in and don't really fancy reading through 9 pages. Is this the 'Mantle killer' everyone claims it to be or just usual marketing ********.
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Mantle hasn't really got started yet has it? I thought their was only one game supported and it has washed out bug?

Likely Direct X12 and Mantle will both mature in the same period.

Luckily Direct X9,x10,x11 are working fine atm for the thousands of games Mantle and Direct X12 don't support yet :p
 
Boomstick777 said:
Mantle hasn't really got started yet has it? I thought their was only one game supported and it has washed out bug?

Likely Direct X12 and Mantle will both mature in the same period.

Luckily Direct X9,x10,x11 are working fine atm for the thousands of games Mantle and Direct X12 don't support yet :p
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IMO DX12 is also more about the XB1 getting one over on Sony, to create development parity with the PC which puts the PS4 as the odd one out in developing games.

Don't convince yourself M$ will make DX12 for PC anything like what it is on the XB1. :)
 
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